Country Analysis – Part Two of Final Evaluation Report for CIFOR’s ‘A Global Comparative Study for a

Additionally, according to one interviewee (IND02) and 80% of survey responses to whether decision-makers in the sub-national jurisdictions had information and tools to manage land use tradeoffs and multistakeholder processes in the context of Indonesia’s NDCs (second row from the bottom in the graph below), the GCS project was perceived to have ‘not really’ been impactful at the sub-national leve. [...] In 2016, CIFOR, in close collaboration with national partners, co-organized two out of four national consultation workshops to support the policy dialogues on the revision of the Vietnam Forestry Law, especially regarding the assessment of the financial investment in the forestry sector, and forest valuation to revise forest protection and development law (CIFOR, 2016a). [...] 2.2.2 How did the research contribute to national and sub‐national REDD+ processes? Factors contributing to the relevance of the research nationally and sub- nationally According to the Vietnam specific analysis of the survey results shown in the graph below, CIFOR’s research approach worked well both at the national and international levels in Vietnam as 100% of the respondents thought that the r. [...] Despite these results, and the general appreciation of the value of the project, it was not entirely clear, especially at the sub-national level, the extent to which public policy adjustments were a direct consequence of the GCS project, rather than the result of the concurrence of other efforts. [...] In fact, the research on peatlands developed and disseminated through this project fed into the work of the technical teams of the Loreto regional government and the Ministry of the Environment.